Bielema Proposes Rule Change to Slow Down No-Huddle Offenses

al.com reported Monday that Bielema, a member of the NCAA's Playing Rules Oversight Panel, proposed a rules change that would create "a 15-second substitution period" after each first down to allow defenses to substitute. At the recent SEC spring meetings, Bielema framed it as a player safety issue -- just as Saban did when asking for similar rules changes last October.

"Not to get on the coattails of some of the other coaches, there is a lot of truth that the way offensive philosophies are driven now, there's times where you can't get a defensive substitution in for 8, 10, 12 play drives," Bielema said, per al.com. "That has an effect on safety of that student-athlete, especially the bigger defensive linemen, that is really real."